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The insect wall I built.
Freshly chopped but mostly worthless wood. I filled the gaps between the logs with little hollow branches and straw.
Why?
Insects are a very important part of our ecosystem. We consider them mostly as creeps, but they are more than useful, rather necessary for our survival. Just like bees by the way.
The number of insects and species of insects has been negatively influenced by pesticides. Pesticides are hardly controlled or regulated by authorities and hardly discussed by science, because of the financial importance of the producers, the chemical industry.
All you can do as an individual is make circumstances for insects in your garden or even on your balcony as favorable as possible. An insect wall is one of the methods.
Several species of wood, drill holes in the logs on all sides, put grass and straw and hollow branches between them, and you'll be surprised how many creeps will visit you.
The birds love it, so the result is also more birds in your garden.
I hope it also results in beautiful photos of all sorts of insects.
Entomoscelis americana. Chrysomelidae. University of Michigan Biological Station, Cheboygan County, MI.
another gothic looking creature, completely blending to the underneath of a branch and required the very sharp eyes of the guide to point it to us. this species have very strange orange spikes on its back. this shot even captured some cob-web on its pair of "horns" at the front of the head.
updated:
this species have been identified as a rare male Parectatosoma species endemic in Madagascar and not yet described, based on emails sent to me by various experts. glad that i had a chance to see such an amazing creature.
Episode 8, Part 2 of 2.
See previous post.
A male Metaphycus dispar parasitoid wasp that has recently eclosed from the Scale insect cocoon in the previous post. Cocoon was found on bay in Hasatings Cemetery on 6th April, adult wasp eclosed on 13th April. Additional pictures below.
Insect and flower. I shot this series with Olympus TOUGH TG-5 by using (normal) macro feature. In this case I could not use extended focus because insect was moving way too fast and it was quite challange to get some photos even with normal macro. I shot over 200 photos to get these few. However with compact macro (with small sensor size) this is somewhat easier than with full frame sensor DSLR and macro lens. Hausjärvi, Finland. 28.8.2017
The island's trees were full of adult Mayflies; as such Ring-billed Gulls were busy flying to feed on this bounty. At night, just as dusk was falling, we were treated to the jigging flight of these insects.
Mosquito Enemy technician, Tyler Haase, introduces a new program IGR (Insect Growth Regulator) that offers even greater protection against the mosquitos you'll find outside.